Electronic Course Surveys: Does automating feedback and reporting give better results?     

Stuart Watt  Claire Simpson  Chris McKillop  Viv Nunn 《Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education》2002,27(4):325-337

This paper discusses an electronic course survey system designed to support evaluation of a modular programme in management taught through distance education. The scale and communication issues raised by distance education, when compounded by a complex rolling modular programme, make conventional evaluation complicated, slow and expensive. To overcome these problems, an automated evaluation process was introduced, partly based on web-based surveying, but significantly emphasising the reporting process and allowing performance indicators and complex analyses to be embedded in high quality word-processed reports, that can be quickly and easily generated after each presentation of a module. The paper discusses the system and the impact that it has had on the evaluation process, before looking to future opportunities for developments in this field, and discussing some of the implications - both expected and unanticipated - that have come out of using automation in the evaluation process.  相似文献   

Training program in child abuse for community health workers     

Stuart Copans  Helen Krell  John Gundy  Frances Field  Janet Rogan 《Child abuse & neglect》1979,3(1):123-130

A wide range of health workers in the community provide care for families that abuse or have a potential for abusing their children. Frequently these workers are unable to work effectively because of difficulty dealing with feelings aroused by contact with such families.An experimental child abuse training program for community health workers was designed by a pediatrician, a social worker, a public health nurse and two child psychiatrists. This program included a six-month study group which met weekly to focus on feelings and conflcts aroused during the course of work with abusing or potentially abusing families.Through analysis of the group experience, the leaders identified eleven sets of feelings or conflicts which seemed to interfere consistently with effective delivery of care: 1)anxieties about a) being physically harmed by angry parents and b) about the effects of a decision; 2) denial and inhibition of anger; 3) need for emotional gratification from clients; 4) lack of professional support; 5) feelings of incompetence; 6) denial and projection of responsbility; 7) feeling total responsibility for assigned families; 8) difficulty separating personal from professional responsibility; 9) feelings of being a victim; 10) ambivalent feelings a) toward clients and b) about one's professional role; 11) need to be in control.This type of group experience seems to be an effective method for exploration and resolution of feelings and conflicts.  相似文献   

An Objectivist Critique of Relativism in Mathematics Education     

Rowlands  Stuart  Graham  Ted  Berry  John 《Science & Education》2001,10(3):215-241

Many constructivists tag as `absolutist' references to mathematics as an abstract body of knowledge, and stake-out the moral high-ground with the argument that mathematics is not only utilised oppressively but that mathematics is, in-itself, oppressive. With much reference to Ernest's (1991) Philosophy of Mathematics Education this tag has been justified on the grounds that if mathematics is a social-cultural creation that is mutable and fallible then it must be social acceptance that confers the objectivity of mathematics. This paper argues that mathematics, albeit a social-cultural creation that is mutable and fallible, is a body of knowledge the objectivity of which is independent of origin or social acceptance. Recently, Ernest (1998) has attempted to express social constructivism as a philosophy of mathematics and has included the category of logical necessity in his elaboration of the objectivity of mathematics. We argue that this inclusion of logical necessity not only represents a U-turn, but that the way in which Ernest has included this category is an attempt to maintain his earlier position that it is social acceptance that confers the objectivity of mathematics.  相似文献   

Primary Concern     

Stuart Macdonald 《The International Journal of Art & Design Education》1983,2(1):3-5

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Appendix: Summary of Versions of the Dimensional Change Card Sort Used     

Philip David Zelazo  Ulrich Müller  Douglas Frye  Stuart Marcovitch 《Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development》2003,68(3):120-123

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Our response to Adam, Alangui and Barton's ``A Comment on Rowlands & Carson `Where would Formal, Academic Mathematics stand in a Curriculum informed by Ethnomathematics? A Critical Review''     

Stuart Rowlands  Robert Carson 《Educational Studies in Mathematics》2004,56(2-3):329-342

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I. The Development of Executive Function     

Philip David Zelazo  Ulrich Müller  Douglas Frye  Stuart Marcovitch 《Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development》2003,68(3):1-27

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II. Study 1: Memory and Executive Function     

Philip David Zelazo  Ulrich Müller  Douglas Frye  Stuart Marcovitch 《Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development》2003,68(3):28-47

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References     

Philip David Zelazo  Ulrich Müller  Douglas Frye  Stuart Marcovitch 《Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development》2003,68(3):124-136

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A History of Errors in the Analysis of Oral Reading Behaviour     

Stuart McNaughton 《教育心理学》1988,8(1-2):21-30

Abstract Behavioural analyses of oral reading behaviour have ascribed different functions to errors and the correction of errors. Two positions are discussed. One is the legacy of Skinner which views errors as problematic and which advocates near error‐less learning. The other position views errors and potential errors as providing opportunities for self regulation and enhanced feedback. On the basis of recent research this paper argues that errors can have generative and inhibiting effects on oral reading, depending on the instructional context and the literacy goals of the classroom.  相似文献